Q.Explain the features of a Departmental Store.

A departmental store's defining idea is many separate product departments combined under one roof and one management.

A Departmental Store is a single, very large retail store organised into several separate "departments," each dealing in a different category of goods (e.g. clothing, groceries, electronics, household goods), all functioning under one roof and one central management.

Key features:

• Wide variety under one roof — a customer can buy many different categories of goods without visiting separate shops.
• Unified/centralised management and billing — although organised into departments, the store is run and controlled centrally, often with combined billing/checkout.
• Large capital requirement — a big premises, large stock across many categories, and many staff make this a capital-intensive retail format. …